Makeup Trick in Action: The Sneaky Secret to Lining Your Inner Rims All the Way Across Without Making Your Eyes Look Smaller

Lining the rims of your eyes with eyeliner from corner to corner is a fierce look, but it can make your eyes appear smaller, and, come on, who wants that? But if you use this little move you can see here on Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas, you can get away with this smoky eye makeup look and manage not to make your peepers look like tiny little dots. The secret is how you apply your liner on your top lids at the inner corners. Notice that although the gray shadow goes all the way across her top lids, the line of black liner gets thinner and thinner until it disappears just a few millimeters before the corner of her inner V's. It's that one little tiny hint of non-closed-off-ness that keeps the ring from closing her eyes in entirely, so they don't look small. It's a subtle move but an important one. Have you mastered this trick yet?

Lining the rims of your eyes with eyeliner from corner to corner is a fierce look, but it can make your eyes appear smaller, and, come on, who wants that? But if you use this little move you can see here on Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas, you can get away with this smoky eye makeup look and manage not to make your peepers look like tiny little dots.

The secret is how you apply your liner on your top lids at the inner corners. Notice that although the gray shadow goes all the way across her top lids, the line of black liner gets thinner and thinner until it disappears just a few millimeters before the corner of her inner V's.

It's that one little tiny hint of non-closed-off-ness that keeps the ring from closing her eyes in entirely, so they don't look small. It's a subtle move but an important one.